STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Three New Jersey police officers find themselves in a messy "Situation" after they failed to ticket a reality TV star originally from Staten Island when they pulled him over Sunday in Belmar, N.J.

Complicating matters is the fact that the cops asked West Brighton native Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino of MTV "Jersey Shore" fame for his autograph.

Sorrentino was driving a red, two-seat Ferrari with one woman sitting on another woman's lap in the passenger seat when the officers stopped the car outside a Belmar nightclub. Neither woman was wearing a seatbelt.

Instead of ticketing Sorrentino, the officers asked him to sign their ticket books before letting him drive away.

"The officers knew who this person was and got their autographs and weren't thinking," Belmar Police Capt. Andrew Huisman told E! Online. "If there was a violation of the law, then they should have acted."

Belmar Police Chief Thomas Palmisano has ordered an internal affairs investigation into the incident, which was captured on video.

Huisman said video of the stop that the department received will be used for training purposes to ensure that a similar situation doesn't happen in Belmar again.

Palmisano told the Asbury Park Press that the officers could face disciplinary action ranging from a reprimand to suspension, depending on their records with the department.

The cast of "Jersey Shore" -- which also features Staten Islander Vinny Guadagnino -- returned to nearby Seaside Heights after the show's fourth season finished taping in Florence, Italy.